Shuichiro Keido is the Big Bad and the Arch-Enemy of Funeral Parlor. Upon learning that his friend Kurosu Ouma's offspring would become the progenitors of a new race in the aftermath of the Fourth Apocalypse, he experimented on countless orphan boys to create an "Adam" that would deny Kurosu the privilege of shaping the next generation of humanity in his own image. After learning that Kurosu's research on the Apocalypse Virus surpasses his own, he murders his friend in a jealous rage. From that moment forward, Keido dedicates his entire being to ending the world that Kurosu worked so desperately to save. As the leader of the GHQ Anti-Bodies forces, Shuichiro directly oversees a campaign of oppression and mass murder against the Japanese population. Following the revelation that he is secretly in Da'ath's employ, he later admits that the only reason he helps the organization initiate a worldwide outbreak is to consummate a final act of vengeance against his longtime rival, Kurosu.

Segai Waltz Makoto works for the GHQ Anti-Bodies as The Dragon to the aforementioned Shuichiro Keido. He is first introducedtorturing a defenseless woman, and in that same scene also "talks" to a man he just hanged. With the help of a student, he captures and arrests Shu Ouma, then tries to manipulate Shu to turn against Funeral Parlor, with Shu retorting that people were killed right in front of his eyes by his men. Segai's reply was that they were unregistered citizens, completely uncaring whether or not it was a good reason to kill them. Segai also shows an absolute disregard for his own men; for example, when Shu uses his power to escape and a sniper under his command tries to stop him, Segai shoots him just so he doesn't interrupt him seeing Shu's power; and later, when he leads an assault on one of the last Funeral Parlor strongholds to spread the Apocalypse Virus further, kills his partner Dan Eagleman for saving Haruka. His life even ends with violence when trying to kill Ayase by hitting her with a truck, only to be stopped when Shu kills him with Shears of Life and Segai seems to enjoy it. A man who enjoys violence and carnage, whether he or someone else is the cause of it, underneath his polite mask lies a sadisticsociopath whose cruelty and depravity is matched only by his boss.

Many fans seem to like Shu better as a Jerkass than what he was in the first half of the series.

If people dislike Jerkass Shu, they root for Gai. Even though he clearly Came Back Wrong, and even when he was still alive, he was almost as bad as Shu in full dictator-mode. That doesn't stop people from applauding him for taking away Shu's void Genome even though he's clearly on the wrong side.

Foe Yay: In Episode 4, Segai sees Shu use Inori's Void and practically has an orgasm. One can wonder who he's referring to: Shu or Inori. Episode 6 shows him flashing back to that moment, focusing on Shu's face, and saying that he feels like he's falling in love for the first time. Really, Segai practically orgasms whenever he sees Shu pulling out Voids.

Hilarious in Hindsight: In the English dub version of the final episode's epilogue, the casts last words are "To the New Year!", then co-authors are doing a mega crossover fanfic based on New Years Eve, somewhat an inversion of ascended fanon.

I Am Not Shazam: Fans are already prone to refer to the power of kings as the Guilty Crown despite this term never coming up in the actual show. For the time being, "Guilty Crown" seems to at most be a metaphorical way to refer to Shu's powers.

The entirety of Episode 15. First Yahiro decides to use a Void Ranking system based on the power readings on a random object they happened to find lying around, when it's been proven that all Voids can be useful given the situation. Then after Shu is confronted by Souta and says he doesn't agree with the system, a paper appearing to show the opposite just so happens to get leaked to the F-Ranked students. When they try to break into a local hospital out of desperation, Shu brings Hare along with him to stop them, even though he has no reason to believe any of them are injured yet and she has no means of defending herself whatsoever. Then when they're attacked Souta seems to lose a few brain cells and decides it's a good idea for him and Hare to run out into the open with Endlaves running about, resulting in Hare's death and Shu's Start of Darkness.

Actually, Shu specifically told Hare and the other students to take cover and hide while he drew the Anti-Bodies' fire. It probably would have worked too if Souta didn't pull Hare out into the open and convince her to try and fix a car that was in plain view of the Endlaves.

Just Here for Godzilla: Even with the show's low reputation the animation is very fluid and the OST incredible, enough so that some people watch it just for the action scenes and music.

Les Yay: Some interpretations of the distant finale has it that Ayase and Tsugumi are married, or at least live together. Of course, seeing as the two of them have shown previously no romantic or sexual interest whatsoever in any female and both have plenty of interest in males, this seems very doubtful.

Love It or Hate It: One of the biggest ones on the last years. Is Guilty Crown an excellent anime with gorgeous work and music, or a weird fest of cliches and plot holes?

Keido may have crossed it at one of two points—either when he tried to prevent the Adam and Eve of the new world from being an incestuous couple by sacrificing hundreds of children in horrific experiments, or when he murdered his old friend Kurosu in cold blood for no other reason than seething jealousy.

Kurosu Ouma crossed it when he agreed to go ahead with the pregnancy that would kill his wife, so that his daughter could trigger the apocalypse by sexing her new brother up. About the best that can be said is that he wasn't too happy about it afterwards.

One-Scene Wonder: The student with a fridge Void, only seen during the montage in Episode 3.

Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Shu and Inori have become more popular in recent episodes; Shu because some fans just feel sorry for the kid after all the abuse he's been put through, and both for taking levels in badass in order to protect each other. To support this both Shu and Inori reached number 1 in their respective sections of the "Newtype" popularity poll.

Souta immediately dropped to this level when one of his boneheaded decisions got Hare killed.

Arisa and pretty much all of the students picked up a Hatedom after the events of Episode 17.

Snark Bait: The anime series ended up, surprisingly enough, developing a proportionally greater "trainwreck" following than Code Geass despite not being quite as popular overall, as a result of the show having dull or unsympathetic characters, similarly bad twists, an obsession with rape or even more bizarre fetishes and perhaps equal or greater Narm fodder. There's not even a Broken Base this time around.

So Bad, It's Good: Even people who like Guilty Crown typically agree its premise and several areas of its writing are either poorly done or downright bizarre, but a lot cannot help but be interested in the show anyways. A good part of it is explained by the show's excellent animation and soundtrack, which are unanimously labelled as some of the best stuff from the time, but another huge chunk still obeys to sheer Narm Charm and Crosses the Line Twice.

Strawman Has a Point: In Episode 4, we see that the GHQ really did bail Japan out of serious national crisis, and they are still actively trying to get rid of the Apocalypse Virus, though while doing a bit of military research on the side. They even have an entire medical facility to treat patients who still suffer from the virus, and the people they target are ones who have refused to inoculate themselves, meaning they still act as potential carriers. The GHQ also would not have had any reason to commit the atrocities seen in the first few episodes if their highly valuable and extremely dangerous experimental genetic weapon wasn't stolen by an armed terrorist group.

Superlative Dubbing: Putting this on here may be a bit of a stretch, but the trailer's out, and a LOT of commentors on there feel that the very tiny piece of dubbing they heard is superior to the original Japanese, if not better. But again, it's too early to tell as only the trailer is out.

They Copied It, So It Sucks: The basic setup and much of the first episode did bear a striking resemblance to Code Geass, which caused many fans to complain. Episode 2 somewhat quelled these complaints.

They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Because of the rapid pace of the story, a lot of characters and concepts were left underdeveloped, and what answers are given are unnecessarily cryptic. The rapid shifts in tone throughout the series and the sudden Gainax Ending seem to suggest that even the creators seemed confused about what direction to take at times.

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